Re: landisk (Plextor) installation stuff

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 18:48:41 +0000, John Klos wrote:

> fdisk -0 -u /dev/sd0d
> (don't change what BIOS thinks, sys ID 169, start 63, use the rest of the 
> disk, no bootmenu, don't update bootcode, write to disk)
[...]
> The problem is that I tried all of this, but it doesn't boot. Should 
> installboot be run differently? I'm not familiar with MBR-type 
> partitioning; did I do that incorrectly?

You *do* need to install bootcode from ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/mbr

SY, Uwe
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